How the Democrats may solve their health-care problem — There is no question that Democrats have looked weak in responding to the Massachusetts election. The notion that they would just shelve health care after all they have put into it — the message they have gotten across …

Is it time to break up? — I should say, at the outset, that I'm not a fan of this idea. But there's no denying that breaking the health-care bill into different pieces is receiving serious consideration. Nothing is decided, but according to House aides, there would be at least four bills …

Ayla Brown acknowledges it: She voted for Kerry — (NECN: Boston) - Her father is the talk of Washington Republicans, but Ayla Brown says she has an independent streak - and a voting record to prove it. In an interview with Beth Shelburne of New England Cable News Friday, Ayla Brown …

Ex-Conservative Charles Johnson's Next Crusade — With many among the left having lately been bogged down in a wonkish debate over health care in general and the question of best-versus-possible in particular, it's easy to forget that the somewhat more fundamental conflict among conservatives regarding …

Right-Wing Flame War! — Charles Johnson has been writing a blog for almost as long as the word “blog” has existed. A bearish, gentle-voiced, ponytailed man who for three decades enjoyed a successful career as a jazz guitarist accompanying the likes of Al Jarreau and Stanley Clarke …

Alert: Female Suicide Bombers May Be Heading Here From Yemen — U.S. Agents Told Women Believed Connected to Al Qaeda May Have Western Appearance and Passports — American law enforcement officials have been told to be on the lookout for female suicide bombers who may attempt to enter the United States …

UK terror threat level ‘severe’ — The UK terror threat level is being raised from “substantial” to “severe”, the Home Office has said. — The new alert level means a terrorist attack is considered “highly likely”. It had stood at substantial since July.

2012 Presidential Poll — For the first time in one of our monthly polls looking ahead to the 2012 Presidential election Barack Obama trails one of his hypothetical opponents, albeit by the smallest of margins. — Mike Huckabee has a 45-44 advantage over Obama, aided largely by a 44-38 lead with independents.

High radiation levels blight Iraq — • Greater rates of cancer and birth defects near sites — • Depleted uranium among poisons revealed in report — More than 40 sites across Iraq are contaminated with high levels or radiation and dioxins, with three decades of war …

Senate Rankings: Post-Masspocalypse Edition — We are transitioning, a little earlier than I'd planned, into a more or less fully automated version of our Senate race rankings. From now until November, our rankings will be based entirely on polling and other objective variables …

Obama Seen as Anti-Business by 77% of U.S. Investors — Buzz up! — Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) — U.S. investors overwhelmingly see President Barack Obama as anti-business and question his ability to manage a financial crisis, according to a Bloomberg survey. — The global quarterly poll …

Et Tu, Fox News Channel? — It's a horrible, unspeakable tragedy that gets you right in the core of your humanity. The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere is flattened by a huge earthquake. Hundreds of thousands killed, thousands of children orphaned, more than 1.5 million now homeless.

CA Democrats Revive Single-Payer Health Care Plan — SACRAMENTO (KCBS/AP) — A key legislative committee in California revived a bill Thursday to create a government-run health care system in the nation's most populous state, two days after Massachusetts elected a senator who opposes the president's national health care plan.

No Love Lost — At 9:45 this morning, George H.W. Bush will open up his West Houston home to the press to make what is, for the octogenarian former president, a rare overtly political announcement: In the intra-Republican party fight for Texas governor, 41 has chosen U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison over Gov. Rick Perry.

U.S. government for sale — With no limits on campaign financing, corporations will take over the government — SPECIAL COMMENT — Finally tonight, as promised, a Special Comment on the Supreme Court's ruling today in the case titled “Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.”

Obama, With Defiant Tone, Vows to Push Agenda — ELYRIA, Ohio — President Obama, striking a no-retreat, no-surrender posture in the wake of his party's humiliating defeat in the Massachusetts Senate race this week, vowed Friday to press on with his expansive domestic agenda …

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